Cement and asphalt production are among the most carbon-intensive industries — making cement alone accounts for roughly 7-8 percent of global CO2 emissions. This bill would direct the Federal Highway Administration to launch grants and incentives for states that buy lower-emission cement, concrete, asphalt binder, and asphalt mixtures for highway projects. States would get reimbursed for the extra cost of using these materials, plus a 2 percent incentive payment, and would receive technical assistance updating their procurement specifications. FHWA would also publish a public directory of approved low-emission materials and let states sign multi-year "advance purchase commitment" contracts to give producers funding certainty. The bill authorizes $15 million for the grant program through FY2027.
Environmental Concerns
- Low-emission transportation materials — Federal grants and 2% incentive payments for state procurement of lower-carbon cement, concrete, and asphalt
Congressional Summary
IMPACT Act 2.0This bill expands and modifies Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) programs, including the Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) program, to provide states reimbursement, incentives, and technical assistance to purchase low-emissions cement, concrete, asphalt binder, or asphalt mixtures. Under the bill, these are products that reduce, to the maximum extent practicable, greenhouse gas or directly related pollutant emissions to levels below the commercially available products.Specifically, the FHWA must provide to statesreimbursement for the additional cost of using low-emissions cement, concrete, asphalt binder, and asphalt mixtures used in state highway projects;incentives for the acquisition of these products for use in state highway projects;technical assistance to update the state's specifications and standards to be performance-based specifications and standards; andtechnical assistance to benchmark and quantify embodied greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., emissions associated with the production and transportation of goods).The FHWA must leverage the Every Day Counts Initiative to promote the commercialization of low-emissions cement, concrete, asphalt binder, and asphalt mixtures.The FHWA must establish and maintain a publicly available directory of state-submitted low-emissions products that the FHWA determines to be eligible for reimbursement or incentives.Further, the bill modifies the STBG program to allow states to issue advance purchase commitments for cement, concrete, asphalt binder, or asphalt mixtures (1) with superior durability and performance to conventional materials, or (2) that achieve superior performance with respect to environmental performance or energy efficiency. The bill allows for multi-year contracts, under specific conditions.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-03-14
- Date Added
- 2026-05-17
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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